A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material. Chinese battery manufacturer CATL alone had more than 1,000 people devoted to solid-state battery research as of 2024, and battery manufacturers like BYD , LG , and Samsung are also working on the technology. US and European startups making solid-state batteries have collectively raised over $4 billion as of 2025 . Solid-state ...

Go’s proposal for package flag was accepted on July 23, 2026. It fixes an awkward case in programs that read the same setting from command-line flags, environment variables, and defaults. Suppose a server has a -debug flag whose default is false: fs := flag . NewFlagSet ( "serve" , flag . ContinueOnError ) debug := fs . Bool ( "debug" , false , "enable debug logging" ) if err := fs . Parse ( args ); err != nil { return err } The serv...

LinkedIn’s revenue grew 12% year over year in the quarter ended March 31, 2026, according to Microsoft. Two weeks after that result was published, LinkedIn cut about 5% of its staff. This report covers headcount, the May 2026 layoffs, workforce distribution by country and department, hiring, pay, and revenue growth, using figures from LinkedIn’s pressroom, Microsoft Investor Relations, and Revelio Labs. LinkedIn Employee Statistics: Key Figures 17,500+ Full-time employees listed on L...

TAIPEI (July 29, 2026) — Shield AI and Thunder Tiger Corp. today announced the successful completion of Hivemind’s first multi-asset autonomous teaming demonstration on water, validating Shield AI’s Hivemind AI pilot aboard Thunder Tiger SeaShark unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in a coordinated mission. During the demonstration in Pingtung, Taiwan, Thunder Tiger’s SeaShark 600 and SeaShark 800 USVs equipped with Hivemind autonomously executed a coordinated intelligence, surveillance, a...

making notes and reviewing quotes, collected from day and night: here, there are stories. i revel in observing, and in place- making. where am i? how do i feel? what does this mean to me? i think of the melody of words their cadence and shape and tense and from all, i feel:. from words, wonder; with words, wonder. making notes and reviewing quotes, collected from day and night: here, there are stories. i revel in observing, and in place- making. where am i? how do i feel? what does this mean to...

Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work. Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT! (Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me) Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email , or leave a comment . Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work...

Today, the world is made of people. This gives people a tiny measure of leverage: factory workers can sabotage the machines and halt production, truck drivers can strike and halt the entire economy, the police can stand back and let a protest topple the government , the military can mutiny . This sets a limit to how much the powerful can abuse the powerless: no matter how powerful someone is, how much money they have, how many divisions they command, they are still embedded in a society. They ...

Introduction In the Livelymerge project, Dan Ingalls, Peter Van Hardenberg, and I (Alex Warth) are building a Lively Kernel-like system whose heap — every object, class, and method — is an Automerge document. The pitch, from the first note in this series, was that this would give us merges “for free”: multiple users share the same object memory, work on it concurrently (even offline), and Automerge reconciles everything. I also wrote that merging the state of a live system is a non...

What's up on the smolweb? July 2026 roundup 2026-07-30 06:15 Summer is here, the big web is choking on AI slop, and the smolweb keeps quietly growing. Here is a roundup of what happened on the small web, the smolnet, and around the Gemini protocol in July 2026. Geminispace approaching 3,500 active capsules On July 26, Techrights reported that the Lupa crawler (the main Geminispace survey) now lists 4,761 total capsules , with 3,487 recently connected . That is up from 3,400 in April 20...

One day there will hopefully be a house on this land Over the last year, I admittedly haven’t used my Vision Pro a ton, but fairly recently I discovered a super handy use that it’s absolutely incredible at, provided you have the right tools. After years of apartment life my girlfriend and I have recently begun the process of building our (first! exciting!) home, which is an absolute whirlwind of choices and decisions. Maybe it’s where we’re both programmers, but particularly for m...

Sheesh, 162 links this month. What is going ON? There is just too much interesting material being written, and that’s after filtering out clanker slop. I’m pretty sure I need to curtail the scope of these link posts at some point. I added the 🔥 emoji a while back to make it easier for folk to just skim for the top links. It’s been a quiet blogging month for me, with just one post capturing my rant on LinkedIn about companies using LLMs to write content…to feed to LLMs. Thi...

0.0 Context Setting It’s Tuesday, 28 July, 2026 in Portland, Oregon. My brain is mush. 0.1 Events: How People Work, Live! How People Work, Live! is the live show about how to people. It’s based on my How People Work , my workshop that helps teams deliver better, faster, which itself is built on my last 20 years of working in tech. Each show I’m joined by a very special guest and any number of interesting people (that’s you) to find out how to get hard results by learning and app...

Welcome to Austin’s Nerdy Things, where we send punctuation to a frontier AI model 649 times and take notes on what crawls out. The night of July 27th, a weird Claude behavior was making the rounds on X. A thread from @merlindru (187K views) flagged a strange Opus 5 failure mode around a specific text, and @fdosmither followed up with a sharper observation about a related trigger: a spaced - - - divider seemed to confuse Claude into treating the user’s turn as unfinished — his s...

I am delighted to announce that my book, Logic for Programmers, is now available! You can check out the release site here or go directly to buy the ebook or print versions. If you bought any of the early access versions, you can get the 1.0 for free from leanpub. This has been a long time in the making. Formal logic is an incredibly powerful tool to understand software. Everything from “what’s a left outer join” to “why shouldn’t Square inherit from Rect” makes more sense if you know...

Amodei in his latest blog post wrote a mix of agreeable things and things that I believe misrepresent where the real risk of AI is located. I want to focus my attention on why, among all the risks, open weight models constitute the mildest one. I write these words as a person who strongly believes AI may be very dangerous in the near future: 1. Exactly like what happened during the OpenAI / HF incident (which was a joke, but focus on the modalities, not the outcomes), the first serious AI inc...

Chang’e 4 lander on the farside of the Moon, as imaged by the Yutu 2 rover. Image: CNSA China pioneered exploring our Moon’s mysterious farside with the Chang’e 4 and Chang’e 6 missions. Soil and rock samples fetched by Chang’e 6 changed our understanding of the Moon’s evolution , paving the way for future missions to seek answers to the next set of scientific questions about our Moon and its connection to Earth as well as events in the Solar System. Chang’e 4 and its ass...

I had another of those I’m living in the future moments today when I was at an electronics retailer, and I saw a 1 TB MicroSD card. I couldn’t afford it of course, but its mere existence shook me in a way I wasn’t expecting. One terabyte . On a thing the size of my thumbnail. Heck, even this picture of a card from my preferred vendor is likely larger than the card itself, depending on your viewport: The 486SX tower my dad brought home before I started school had a one hundred ...

For 25 years, physicists have been puzzled by an apparent one-part-in-a-million problem. Their expectations of the way that certain particles should wobble in a magnetic field were clashing with what they saw in experiments. The discrepancy was an electrifying hint that they might be seeing evidence of unknown particles. Then in 2021, that hint seemed to evaporate. When researchers updated the… Source For 25 years, physicists have been puzzled by an apparent one-part-in-a-million problem. T...

On my 22nd birthday, two years ago, I had a pretty pleasant day. I don't really remember what about it was good, I probably had an enjoyable task at work and a good time with collegues; and in my good mood, I also went down to the book shop right outside my workplace and picked up War and Peace. The cashier made a little comment as he scanned the book, apparently impressed or surprised. Why'd I pick it up? Well, why would anyone want to read the book? Because it's a classic and everyone says ...

When you’re on fire, problems are transparent: they’re solved simply by the act of looking at them. Even complicated layers of multiple problems can simply be glanced through like stacked panes of glass. But nobody can work that way all the time. This is a common pitfall for smart engineers. Accustomed to being able to immediately intuit the solution, the first time they run into a problem they can’t do this to is a disaster. It doesn’t even have to be a hard problem, just a problem wh...

There is nothing I hate more than doing self-promotion. The idea of talking about something I’m doing, I’ve done, or I'm going to do makes my skin crawl. But the opposite, promoting things other people are doing—especially friends—fills me with so much joy that I’ll never miss out on the opportunity of doing it. And that’s why I’m excited to let you know that my longtime friend Mattia is about to embark on another of his trips, this time touching Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan,...

Originally published on Rails At Scale . We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete benefit we are already seeing and how it optimizes blocks in pretty much every Ruby program. I’ll start off with a refresher on how blocks work in the Ruby interpreter, then show you how ZJIT understands and optimizes that bytecode, and then show you th...

In his essay on Salvador Dali, Orwell argued that because Dali was a repulsive human being, the right wouldn’t admit that he was a great artist; conversely, because he was a great artist, the left wouldn’t admit he was a repulsive human being. I’m seeing the same thing with AI: because it’s unethical, one side won’t acknowledge that it’s useful, but because it’s useful, the other side won’t acknowledge that it’s unethical. Time to make another cup of tea… In his essay on S...